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SUBMITTER: Nosek BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2705538 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090622 26
About 70% of more than half a million Implicit Association Tests completed by citizens of 34 countries revealed expected implicit stereotypes associating science with males more than with females. We discovered that nation-level implicit stereotypes predicted nation-level sex differences in 8th-grade science and mathematics achievement. Self-reported stereotypes did not provide additional predictive validity of the achievement gap. We suggest that implicit stereotypes and sex differences in scie ...[more]